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Sunday Roundup… Recipes and Rants!

After yesterdays exercise and boating I am taking it easy today so pull up your favourite chair and your cuppa and enjoy a medley of posts …Some recipes, health tips and some toe-dipping by Moi into the writer’s pond…Will my words of mirth and wisdom cause a very small ripple or a tsunami…I await your comments…

The Prompt Crossed Wires… My short story in response was Mistaken Identity something which I am sure has happened many a time…Enjoy!

Those of you who know me know that I love a cause and a rant and I hate those pesky double-dealing underhand Manufacturers and Governments who allow it…

As Monday is a day which many don’t like it is my let off the steam day. I have uncovered what really is in your Hot Dog, What is in your Mac and Cheese and also what is really in your Vanilla Ice Cream and trust me I have only just started… Tomorrow though I thought I would give the manufacturers a break or will I ??

The subject is Waste...Food Waste…something which I believe we could all do something about…

Blogs I like …Sally Cronin writes some brilliant Health columns …I have learnt so much from those columns and I am sure that you can … The last couple of posts have been on the dreaded and sometimes fatal Flu Virus and what we can do to help ourselves and get our bodies prepared for the onslaught of those seasonal germs and viruses.

Sally also allows me to stretch my culinary legs and every Wednesday I can be found over on Smorgasbord…After my exposure of Hot Dogs, I thought it only fitting that I should give you all the information that you require to make your own sausages.

As you know I get about a bit and once a month I introduce The Culinary Alphabet over at Esme’s…The letter I was the subject of this months do you know what… Isinglass Finings are??? How about Immortalitea?

No More Diets and Healthy Eating is the subject of my Tuesday’s posts where I give you recipes, information and other snippets to help you along your path to Healthy Eating and I do also have a quiet little rant at times…lol…I don’t believe ( unless) it is for a properly diagnosed health reason that one should eliminate whole food groups we need a well-balanced diet to be fit.

Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

Food waste drives me crazy. I have a compost bin that gets the few things that get ‘past’ their time. Also pleased that Australia has organisations like Oz Harvest, that collect fresh, but unused, food from supermarkets and restaurants, and make sure it goes to those who need it. You remind me that I should volunteer at the soup kitchen.

It drives me crazy as well and it is great to see more and more of these organisations springing up …I have done that in England and it is sobering because there are various reasons why people are there and some are very well educated it is just circumstances ..So sad 🙂